Timothy Lloyd Baylor III was 19 when he was shot and killed on May 23, 2014, on the 200 block of Martin Street in Williamston, North Carolina. He was taken to Martin General Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arriving. Baylor, known as Wiz, had spent the prior three weeks living at his mother Barbara Baylor’s home in Bertie County and leaves behind a 3-month-old son.

A 23-year-old man from Jamesville, Simon Perry Arrants, was arrested the same day by the Williamston Police Department and the State Bureau of Investigation and charged with an open count of murder. Arrants was held without bond at the Bertie-Martin Regional Jail and was scheduled to appear in court. The motive has not been released and the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Williamston Police Department or the SBI.